Financial crime compliance officer

nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking. The Compliance Team work together to provide a spectrum of comprehensive financial crime compliance related services to customers. We are resourceful problem solvers with a focus on advising our customers to run their business in a compliant way. We do this by providing best-in-class professional solutions whilst adding value to our overall service and product offering. These range from providing trusted advice and training regarding legislation, regulations, industry standards, guidelines and best practice, to undertaking operational projects on behalf of our customers through the application of pragmatic, risk-based principles to researching and maintaining a key watchlist of politically exposed (PEP) and prominent influential (PIP) persons in South Africa that allows our customers to be compliant and assess risk effectively.

We actively share our knowledge and experience with each other and as part of the larger organisation, we support our colleagues in their quest for knowledge around financial crime and are always on call to help them figure out a challenge or work with them on new ideas for our software solution or product and service offerings. That means that what we do is often driven by the needs of our customers, business, and our wider team.

By guiding and supporting our customers in identifying, mitigating and reporting money laundering and financial crimes that result from predicate crimes, we make a tangible impact in protecting our society, economy, environment and wildlife.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Support the Compliance Officers to provide confident, professional, succinct advisory, project work and support to a broad range of accountable institutions around regulations, guidelines and best practice
• Assist to resolve customer challenges, requiring application of risk-based approaches to develop compliant solutions to sometimes complex problems
• Attend client system onboarding meetings to define, refine and create RMCP’s and risk rating schemas
• Undertake review of clients AML/CFT/PF compliance and use of the system
• Contribute to product design to develop new or enhanced software functionality
• Proactively knowledge share with the sales and account management teams, and provide support at client meetings
• Proactively share with the marketing team and brainstorm campaigns and relevant timely social media and blog posts
• Present domain expertise on behalf of the company (example: training and webinars)
• Remain current with knowledge base, refine and reinforce domain skills, work collaboratively for team and/or broader group success

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education & Training:

Bachelor’s level education in a relevant subject (e.g. law, finance, business, risk)

Knowledge, Skill, and Ability:

• Detailed, practical and applied knowledge of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (and its Amendments, Guidance Notes and PCC’s) as well as an awareness of the key elements of related local legislation such as POCDATARA, POCA and PRECCA
• Demonstrated ability to articulate a clear and pragmatic interpretation of complex legislation
• Application of a risk-based approach to anti-money laundering, counter financing of terror and proliferation financing
• Possesses a strong understanding of customer and market needs, industry/technology trends and competitive landscape. Uses related knowledge to make informed decisions that influence engineering strategies that lead to the company's competitive advantage and overall success
• Outstanding capability inspiring colleagues and customers towards compliance excellence.
• Effective communication skills to collaborate with legal, technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Driven to stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.

Years of Related Experience:

Minimum of five(5) years' relevant experience

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

Formal qualification or certification in financial crime compliance (e.g. ACAMS, ICA, CISA)

If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino. nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at recruiting@ncino.com. Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success. We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.